The Chickens Of Wild Ivy Farm

10/24/2026

Perhaps you’ve heard of Jackson Hole. Maybe you’ve even visited Jackson Hole. Well, here, you can see Jackson (in a) hole!

Chickens having a lovely good dirt bath look very much like chickens dying from a horrific neurological disease, as Jackson is splendidly demonstrating.

10/22/2026

BB was very upset that I blocked off her nest (the blue & white bag of chopped hay) and determinedly hunted for a way back in.

10/22/2026

BB decided, after just a few weeks of laying eggs, that she ought to brood them. When removed from her nest she stubbornly refused to move and brooded on the floor. She was given an es**rt out to the coop.

09/30/2026

I had to record Cranberry’s voice because it is fairly indescribable. Sad goat? Broken car horn? Disappointed goose?

She is not sick (or broken, disappointed or sad). This is her normal voice! At least, for now. At just six months old, her voice is changing so she may grow out of the sighing kazoo stage.

09/29/2026

Tinkerbell’s favorite job is telling the hens he found a Good Nest. They don’t want his help and mostly don’t approve of his selections. He is not deterred, however, and carries on sitting in Good Nests and telling hens about it.

He likes to think he is good at other jobs too, like Making Alarm Sounds or Finding A Snack but his only real skill is providing DNA for cute babies.

09/28/2026

Another secret stash

09/28/2026

In celebration of one of this Spring’s babies being all grown up and laying her first egg, I created a whole album to showcase the ladies’ work. Their eggs are beautiful and each is unique so that I can usually tell which egg is from which hen.

09/10/2026

Same video but with subtitles!

09/10/2026

09/09/2026

Tidbit is starting to think that hatching eggs that were laid by the big chickens was not a good idea.